Bud, please be sure you are not upvoting for witnesses for their coffee name. Instead, select the witnesses for the value they add to the hive blockchain.

For example: @gtg is a long-term witness who supported the hive bifurcation. @themarkymark is a developer who created the global blacklist (for keeping the abusers away), also he has a project for science and technology in stemgeeks.net and a lot of more amazing things. @good-karma has the esteemapp and Mobile DApp for hive and allows a free onboarding.  Both projects are crucial for Hive.

From the top 10 witnesses I am not supporting steempress. They have a plugin to connect wordpress sites to the Hive blockchain, which is amazing. However, they were upvoting automatically no matter the quality of the posts. Maybe, in the future they bring manual curation for a better upvoting.

I recommend to upvote for the following witnesses: @ocd-witness by @acydio, @curie, and @pharesim (curangel) because they hold a great manual curations projects on hive.

Take care and Hive On!